Parliament fails to elect Constitutional Court judge (3)

No one reaches quorum

(ANSA) - Rome, January 11 - A joint session of parliament on
Wednesday failed to elect a Constitutional Court judge,
political sources tod ANSA, saying no candidate had reached the
two-third threshold required. Parliament often fails to agree on
the top justices, whose election usually requires very many
sessions. Some 558 MPs took part in the vote while the quorum
required was 634. Most votes, 52, went to centrist candidate
Gaetano Piepoli, followed by anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
candidate Felice Besostri with a few votes less. There were 305
blank ballots, 23 spoiled ballots and 54 wasted ballots.